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• 7. SPRINGTIME SLINGS SNOW, HAIL, TWISTERS
• Mother Nature acts like she didn't get her Mother's Day card on time, turning a wet, snowy cold shoulder on Colorado and Wyoming, and tornadoes of wrath on Nebraska. Kansas and Oklahoma may also face punishment.
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• 8. WHO INTENDS TO APPEAL SAME-SEX MARRIAGE RULING
• Arkansas Attorney General Dustin McDaniel will ask the state's Supreme Court to review a lower court's decision to overturn a 2004 constitutional ban on gay marriage.
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• 9. WASHINGTON MONUMENT TO OPEN FOR FIRST TIME SINCE 2011 EARTHQUAKE
• The world's tallest freestanding stone structure has been repaired, with damaged marble being replaced by stone salvaged from Baltimore row houses or the Maryland quarry that provided the original.
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• 10. STERLING'S WIFE MAY NOT BE ABLE TO HOLD ON TO CLIPPERS
• The NBA says if Donald Sterling's ownership of the Los Angeles Clippers is terminated, so is Shelly Sterling's.
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AP News in Brief
AP INVESTIGATION: High costs, corruption suspicions in Brazil's World Cup on tournament's eve
• BRASILIA, Brazil (AP) -- The cost of building Brasilia's World Cup stadium has nearly tripled to $900 million in public funds, largely due to allegedly fraudulent billing, government auditors say. The spike in costs has made it the world's second-most expensive soccer arena, even though the city has no major professional team.
• Mane Garrincha stadium, which boasts 288 imposing concrete pillars holding aloft a high-tech self-cleaning roof, has become the costliest project related to Brazil's $11.5 billion World Cup. Critics call it the poster child for out-of-control spending and mismanagement, or worse.
• Now, an Associated Press analysis of data from Brazil's top electoral court shows skyrocketing campaign contributions by the very companies involved in the most Cup projects. The lead builder of Brasilia's stadium increased its political donations 500-fold in the most recent election.
• The financial links between construction firms and politicians add to deep suspi (Continued on page 23)
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